Following up on the feedback I’ve gotten from the beta test, I’ve released Zeitgeist 1980 v 1.0 to my supporters on Patreon. I’ll update the publicly available version to 1.0 in February. What’s left to be done? Honestly, it depends on response. The core of the game is complete, but there’s always room for more…
Episode 1 Episode 2 Episode 3 Episode 4 Episode 5 Episode 6 As Clay and Mad Words neared Jericho’s East gate, they saw a figure waiting for them, standing among a flock of sheep. Dawn Spring. She was standing. Watching. Waiting between them and the city, only a few hundred yards from the walls. Clay’s…
I was 18 when Crash Bandicoot came out in 1996, and I was a bit of a snob when it came to games. I liked RPGs, I liked fighting games – and that was about it. Mind you, I didn’t even have a Playstation when the game was released, but what little I played in…
The Twine interactive fiction game Zeitgeist 1980 is now in open beta, and I could use your help.
This seems like a good spot to stop, award some character points, and improve our characters. Since episode 2.6, everyone has made Scrounging rolls. Nick rolled Diplomacy and Knife, Vera rolled Driving, Fast Talk, and Mechanic (Automobile), Marco rolled Knife, Ashly rolled First-Aid. We give out 5 CP. I’m worried I might have missed some…
“Bob and Eddie from Everest. Lawrence and Dina from Alpha Team.” Jim listed the fallen, gravity increasing with every name. “Oscar,” Nick said. “And Oscar.” Jim was addressing a council made up of representatives from each of his teams, along with Vera and her friends, seated around a conference table in the law office of…
The group returned to the theater with disinfectants for Doctor Warren, who’d been hard to work on Amanda, seeing to the scrapes and contusions the wheelchair-bound woman had suffered in the car crash. GURPS: Doctor Warren made his First Aid roll to treat Amanda, aided by Ashly. Amanda heals 2hp, and is up to 3/10……
The Arcadia Mall was old, even by 1990s standards, largely unadorned, its parking lot dotted with a few cars but otherwise dark with no lights from the structure or the light-posts. “There’s a Sears,” Josh said, pointing at the sign on one of the mall’s anchor stores. “Do they sell guns?” “This is Texas,” Vera…
Vera drove down the residential streets surrounding the airport, past single-family homes, small parks and baseball fields, and what might have been an elementary school. To be truthful it wasn’t so different from her family’s neighborhood in Belgrade, despite the difference in architectural styles. For Austin, this was probably an older part of the city;…
Since this is a long scenario we’ll take a break now to give our characters some Character Points, assuming they have some time to stop and reflect. Everybody gets 5 cp. So what options do we have for character advancement? Remember, we can only improve skills that our character used during the scenario so far….